Denis Baranger is professor of public law at Université Panthéon-Assas, director of the Institut Michel Villey and director of the LLM public law and democracy.

Denis Baranger has studied law and public administration in Paris (Paris II and Sciences Po Paris) and the University of Cambridge (LLM). He has held several visiting positions, notably at the Melbourne Law School (summer 2001, summer 2017) and the University of Oxford (2002-2004), Penn Law (international “BOK” visiting professor, 2022), Keio University (international visiting professor, 2024). He has also been twice a visiting fellow (2009 and 2012) at St Catherine’s college, Oxford, and a « MacCormick » fellow at the Edinburgh Law Faculty (2013).

He has published regulary, both in French and English, in the fields of constitutional law, jurisprudence and history of ideas. He has received several prizes and distinctions (« François Furet » Prize 2001 ; two-time winner of an académie des sciences morales et politiques prize, 2018 and 2023). He is an Honorary member of Institut Universitaire de France.  Denis Baranger is also active in French public service and policy debates. He has notably been a member of the French National Assembly’s committee on constitutional reform (2014-2015). He regularly comments on public life in the medias. He is also active in the field of participatory and deliberative democracy.